This blog post contains information on GOES-17 and its transition to the operational GOES-West satellite at 137º W Longitude (a link is here). Much as the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) imagery from GOES-17 is preliminary and non-operational, the information in this blog post is also preliminary, and it will be... Read More
Until today, GOES-16 Data that flowed into AWIPS was remapped twice: First, from the observational perspective (that is, how the satellite views it) to a spherical fixed-grid projection that approximates the Earth, and then to a Lambert Conformal projection with (for infrared data) 2-km resolution over the Globe. That Lambert... Read More
When cloud top temperatures are very cold, the 3.9 µm imagery will have characteristics that suggest a noisy signal. The 45-minute animation above shows a cold cloud top east of Florida in 4 different infrared channels: 3.9 µm (Upper Left), 10.3 µm (Upper Right), 8.5 µm (Lower Left) and 12.3 µm (Lower Right). That... Read More
Eclipse season for GOES-16 occurs around the Equinoxes when the satellite can enters the Earth’s shadow. Long ago (before GOES-12), Eclipse Season meant the satellite lost power because the solar array that powers the satellite was in a shadow. GOES-16 has batteries that allow it to function when solar power... Read More
